Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tenn. Tall, old Col. Ames this year had new stories to tell his guests about the curious cherry-red quail on his preserve (TIME, March 13, 1933), now recognized by the Department of Agriculture as a distinct species. Ever since 1909, when Manitoba Rap began the fashion, the national champion ship has been largely an affair for pointers, though a setter, Feagin's Mohawk Pal, won three times (1927, 1928, 1930). This year it looked as if a setter might come through again. Louis M. Bobbitt, a chain drugstore man from Winston-Salem, N. C., one of the first...
...yard, raised his monstrous arms over his head, clasped his hamlike hands, smiled a tusky smile in greeting to Prisoner Alphonse Capone. Up behind a second floor window Prisoner Capone returned the gestured greeting, hopped up & down excitedly, pressed his nose to the pane to watch the heavyweight champion amble out of sight...
...emerges from the race as the Graduate School Basketball Champion, the final standings, released yesterday, reveal. The season, which ended Thursday, with Law II's 47 to 22 victory over the fighting Business School team, was dominated by the undefeated champions, and their follows from the Law School, the Law II aggregation, which only lost one game. The Medical School basketeers nosed out the Arts and Sciences five for third place, and last place goes to the Dental School team with five defeats and not a single victory. The Law III team, without their captain, Bob Leach, succeeded in winning...
After last week's races, the drivers tinkered their boats for the rest of the series: three races at Palm Beach this weekend, four more at Miami Beach a week later, the final of which will determine the outboard champion. Climax of the regatta will be a race at Miami between big inboard motorboats - Italy's 12-litre class against U. S. Gold Cup craft, like Horace E. Dodge's Delphine VI, John Shibe's new Miss Philadelphia, for the Vincent Bendix Trophy...
...Arthur Murray, ballroom dancing. Instructors from Heckscher Foundation gave lessons in clay modeling, crayon and charcoal drawing, woodworking, metalworking, painting. Chosen to demonstrate the art of knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet. ''My goodness!" she remarked. "Isn't he rapid...